Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Kay

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

Charles de Lint

That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

Charles de Lint

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

Charles de Lint

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

Charles de Lint

Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.

Brian Eno

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

Caio Fonseca

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

Jane Yolen

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

David Gray

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Bruce Springsteen

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Bob Weir

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

Arthur Honegger

Music is geometry in time.

Charles Spurgeon

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Boethius

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.